> > How would you feel if you just got a new model and it stopped
> > working within hours of flashing it.
> angry - indeed!
>
> FYI
> >3. Risks

>snip<

Yeah, but it was working after the flash for about an hour just fine. I
could use all options, but I did notice that the USB-2 transfers were slower
than they should be. In retrospect, I think this is a bad HD, unrelated to
the Flashing.

> >Have a little compassion you bastard, and do your jokes and bashing
elsewhere.
>
> come on! be nice to each other - this is not the kind of way we should
speak to
> each other on this list!

I agree, but I don't appreciate trying to find out what this error code
means, and Mr. High & Mighty Thomas Paul Diffenbach uses my misfortune to
trash the FM or V2 model that I was clearly not using.

> it`s annoying to break expensive hardware - but that`s just a shitty
little piece of
> hardware which is known to fail very often, so it is not even worth to be
angry about
> or even curse at each other, because of that.
> you probably get this fixed with the help from this nice people here -
or - you probably
> have a general hardware problem with your hdd inside and have to contact
archos. but you
> could be out of luck because they would complain about the flashing. but
there is http://www.newmp3technology.com/ as an alternative
> which repair them at a fixed price.
>

So you consider the 20GB Recorder to be a "shitty little piece of hardware
which is known to fail very often" ??? I wish everyone would have made
this clear about the 50277 model before I bought two of them. I am now
using the second one that I did not, and will not flash and it seems to be
working well.

In addition, thank God I bought these from Amazon, because getting no help
here, I complained by phone to Amazon that the unit was defective on
arrival. They cheerfully are shipping me a replacement at no charge 2 Day
Airmail, and a pre-paid postage label for me to return this one. So, I hope
this is a lesson to everyone NOT TO FLASH THEIR FIRMWARE, or expect the
Rockbox email list to help solve your hardware failure problems.

I had sent the Rockbox Website PayPal $30 in appreciation of their software
too. Oh well. Live and learn.